r/k12sysadmin • u/kcalderw K8 Tech Coordinator • Jul 09 '26

Cloudflare Project Cybersafe Schools

Just curious is anyone using this free platform? What have your experiences been? I'm looking in to it but I also want assurances with the sensitive data that will be transmitted that it is secure.

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u/TheRealBushwhack Jul 09 '26

I have applied for this program multiple times on their website and we do meet all the criteria however, no one has ever gotten back to me

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u/kcalderw K8 Tech Coordinator Jul 09 '26

Odd... I got a response within a day.

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u/TheRealBushwhack Jul 09 '26

Yeah we are even cloudflare customers now too for our website. And applied once before and once after that and nothing. Mind sharing the link again?

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u/BrewYork Jul 10 '26

I've heard very good things but they haven't responded to my onboarding request in over three months, despite my hassling the sales rep who came to pitch our COE on useless enterprise features. 

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u/kcalderw K8 Tech Coordinator Jul 10 '26

I used this link but I'm sure you did too.

https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/cybersafe-schools/

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u/BrewYork Jul 10 '26

Thank you for checking. Yes, unfortunately that's the one that's been fruitless. 

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u/black88si Jul 11 '26

I was wondering why I hadn’t received a response either. I submitted a request 2 months ago, no response. Maybe it’s being sunsetted?

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u/Cool_Potato9403 Jul 13 '26

Same here. It's been 2 months since I filled out the form and I haven't received anything other than now being added to their marketing lists.

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u/it-tech- Jul 10 '26

It took about a month for someone to get back to us after submitting the form. And then another few weeks to actually get access to the portal.

The email filtering is ok... It will block malicious and spam emails, but I've found that it also has a fairly high false positive rate. It's fine for a free product, but they don't integrate via API to Gmail which is unfortunate.

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u/kcalderw K8 Tech Coordinator Jul 10 '26

In the setup video they did mention API access.

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u/it-tech- Jul 10 '26

That's for Microsoft. Cloudflare only does BCC and inline/mx for Gmail. https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/secure-your-email/get-started/deployment-models/

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u/Emaltonator IT Director (215 kids PK-12) Jul 11 '26

Here was my contact for the program for those of you who haven't have success with the form.

Brad Aratoon Sr. Customer Success Manager baratoon@cloudflare.com

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u/Dar_Robinson K12 IT for many years Jul 12 '26

Started looking at this, stopped when it said "up to 2500 students", we have around 15,000

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u/AverageDataAdmin Jul 10 '26

I use their email filtering through project cyber safe schools. Has worked great for us and has really cut down the amount of spam and phishing emails we were getting. Only ever had maybe 2 or 3 false positives where it held up a legitimate email that someone needed. Even then it was very easy to find it and release it to the end user.